There is always such funny stuff coming from vienna! After the last snippet of the Roböxotica i found this here.

It is a copy of a copyshop, that was posted just nearby the original shop. They used a normal A4-copy device (and i think some computational printing somewhat wonder device) to copy the copyshop. Unfortunalety the illusion is not that perfect, because the entrance is just some centimeters too high. On the other hand this technique isn’t that suitable for perfect illusion. The asthetic is very do-it-yourself and low-cost. The effect on passers-by is actually given: “What was this? Let’s go back and verify what i have seen.” This is not a landmark, but an urban mark. And this corner (and the copyshop) will spread rumors in the city for some weeks i think. Is it after all a viral marketing campagn culture jamming streetart?

via RepeatWhileTrue via Vienna metblogs.

There is always such funny stuff coming from vienna! After the last snippet of the Roböxotica i found this here.

It is a copy of a copyshop, that was posted just nearby the original shop. They used a normal A4-copy device (and i think some computational printing somewhat wonder device) to copy the copyshop. Unfortunalety the illusion is not that perfect, because the entrance is just some centimeters too high. On the other hand this technique isn’t that suitable for perfect illusion. The asthetic is very do-it-yourself and low-cost. The effect on passers-by is actually given: “What was this? Let’s go back and verify what i have seen.” This is not a landmark, but an urban mark. And this corner (and the copyshop) will spread rumors in the city for some weeks i think. Is it after all a viral marketing campagn culture jamming streetart?

via RepeatWhileTrue via Vienna metblogs.

Two impressive GPLed Open Source libraries for the use with Flash:

Flade is a physics engine written by Alec Cove. Check out the demo to see what it’s capable of.

3D Flash Studio is a realtime 3D rendering engine written in Actionscript 2 by Antonin Stefanutti, which sports an exporter for 3dsmax scenes. The rendering mechanism which becomes visible at low resolutions (nice feature) utilises a very clever way of getting around Flash’s inability to access individual pixels, reminiscent of the line-filling techniques of olde.

Someone copied a Copyshop in Vienna’s 7th district (Kirchengasse 10).
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link to vienna.metblogs.com

What can you do on that days where nothing seems to go on? No ideas in the head, no brainburst, no interesting speech/web/tv/party. But far too awake to go into bed. Well, today i choosed: follow old ideas.

Click to draw some leaves or stars.

Or sink into monochromatic op-art.

What can you do on that days where nothing seems to go on? No ideas in the head, no brainburst, no interesting speech/web/tv/party. But far too awake to go into bed. Well, today i choosed: follow old ideas.

Click to draw some leaves or stars.

Or sink into monochromatic op-art.

I must admit that I once ruined the monitor of one of my colleagues when I played the “look what cool effects this heavy magnet has on your monitor” game. And, no, the built-in degauss function was far from powerful enough to heal the permanent magnetic scars that I had caused.

If only I had known this page earlier, where they show a nice trick how to fix your magnet ruined monitor. Well, fix it fast before there are no tube monitors around anymore.

It may not be the first time, we see ragdoll physics implemented in a browser compatible format, but the bubbles give this piece a mesmerizing quality.

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“Assuming that we dodged the 1984, Brave New World bullet, our future was supposed to be a sort of technocratic, atomic-powered, computer-controlled, antiseptic, space-travelling Jerusalem that would at last free us from the curse of Eden and original sin. We expected some how, some way that we would be on the road to being freed from the human condition. We expected a sort of bloodless, benign French Revolution with Hugo Gernsback as our Voltaire and Carl Sagan as our Robespierre. And what did we get? The City of Man with Tivo. The fact is, science fiction and popular science had set the bar so high that only the Second Coming with ray guns would have satisfied.”

I stumbled over this site a while ago and bookmarked it for later reading, but I only got around to look at it more systematically yesterday evening. It’s actually a great read, well-written and at times very funny, at times very informative. The fact that the site uses a FrontPage template from, what, 1996? is a nice touch as well.

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Well, this is a great article about Sony DRM protected audio CDs, that show how the analog and digital sould NOT (i repeat: not) work together. After many things is saw and heard (and also own annoying experiences with a “netMD” MiniDisc Player) i think everyone should avoid Sony products. There are all the way very far (i repeat: very far) beyound user-friendlyness.

A quickly made sketch representing a space that oscillates in sines and boids that locally change the phases of the oscillations. This is more preliminary work for an idea that has been floating around in my head for a while, but I believe the fluid dynamics of the piece are interesting by themselves.

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Free as in free software, not free as in free beer, Vores Øl (”Our Beer”) is the world’s first beer under a Creative Commons license. You can brew your own or change the recipe, but have to release your modified recipe under the same license.

link via we make money not art

Well, this is a great article about Sony DRM protected audio CDs, that show how the analog and digital sould NOT work together. After many things is saw and heard (and also own annoying experiences with a “netMD” MiniDisc Player) i think everyone should avoid Sony products. There are all the way very far (i repeat: very far) beyond user-friendlyness.